Kidney Disease

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life. The book describes the tools used to achieve a good death including advance care planning, symptom control law and ethics, recognizing dying, withdrawal of treatment, and a holistic approach to patient care. By using case histories, the book highlights how to facilitate good communication between patients, families and their renal and palliative teams. There are also chapters on support for carers and bereavement. Revised and updated, this new edition is written in a bullet point style to provide an indispensable guide to the day-to-day management of patient care. This pocketbook will be an essential guide for nephrologists, renal nurses, nephrologist trainees, and doctors and nurses working in palliative care. This is a compact but detailed guide on palliative care and treatment of renal failure in the terminal stage. The book will be very helpful for doctors and nurses. Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association1. End-stage kidney disease ; 2. Comorbidity ; 3. Complications of end-stage kidney disease ; 4. Causes of death in end-stage kidney disease ; 5. Health-related quality of life in end-stage kidney disease ; 6. Symptom assessment and trajectories ; 7. The management of pain ; 8. Non-pain symptoms in end-stage kidney disease ; 9. How to deliver best supportive and palliative care ; 10. Recognizing dying ; 11. Communicating with patients and families ; 12. Ethical and legal considerations ; 13. Management of the last few days ; 14. Spiritual and religious care ; 15. Caring for the carers ; 16. Drug doses in advanced chronic kidney disease ; 17. Audit and research in renal end of life care